Made in UK - yes, really.

Many years ago, I bought two rose-pink vest tops at a now closed branch of Miss Selfridge. Actually, they were/are more like bodices with front and back “shaping" darts that allow the garment to “bloom” into a nice, female shape on top. Friend, I still have the tops, not as museum pieces but as good, wearable garments. They have lasted through countless wears and washes, and have never lost their stretch. The seams and darts have never pulled apart and the fine, looped trimming is still in place about the neck. The deep pink colour has barely faded and the labels are still readable, bearing the legend Made in UK. The condition of these vests cannot be a fluke because I have a pair of Miss Selfridge leggings bought a decade earlier still. Made of black lycra with a crushed-velvety pile, they have faded to dark purple over twenty years but are still wearable, never having lost their elasticity or ripped or torn. Again, they were Made in UK. To all of those folks who claim that British manufacturers cannot hold it together, that all of our manufacturing, machining and assembling is best done overseas, I join with the other MP (Mary Portas) in saying natch…unless “UK” means Upper Kazakhstan, of course.